BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20231117T000000Z DTEND:20231117T013000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Happy Hour with Author Daniel Kraus DESCRIPTION:The Martian meets 127 Hours in this "powerfully humane" (Owen King\, New York Times bestselling author) and scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who's been swallowed by an eighty-foot\, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out.\n\n\n\nJay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it's a long shot\, but Jay feels it's the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad's death by suicide the previous year.\n\n\n\nThe dive begins well enough\, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy\, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale looking to feed. Suddenly\, Jay is caught in the squid's tentacles and drawn into the whale's mouth where he is pulled into the first of its four stomachs. He quickly realizes he has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out one hour to defeat his demons and escape the belly of a whale.\n\n\n\nSuspenseful and cinematic\, Whalefall is an "astoundingly great" (Gillian Flynn\, New York Times bestselling author) thriller about a young man who has given up on life only to find a reason to live in the most dangerous and unlikely of places.\n\nDaniel Kraus is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels and graphic novels. He coauthored The Living Dead with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero. With Guillermo del Toro\, he coauthored The Shape of Water\, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro\, Kraus coauthored Trollhunters\, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. He has won two Odyssey Awards (for Rotters and Scowler)\, and The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Books of the Year. His books have been Library Guild selections\, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults picks\, Bram Stoker finalists\, and more. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. Daniel lives with his wife in Chicago. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Martian \;meets \;127 Hours \;in this &ldquo\;powerfully humane&rdquo\; (Owen King\, \;New York Times \;bestselling author) \;and scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who&rsquo\;s been swallowed by an eighty-foot\, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out.
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\nJay Gardiner has given himself a fool&rsquo\;s errand&mdash\;to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it&rsquo\;s a long shot\, but Jay feels it&rsquo\;s the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad&rsquo\;s death by suicide the previous year.
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\nThe dive begins well enough\, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy\, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale looking to feed. Suddenly\, Jay is caught in the squid&rsquo\;s tentacles and drawn into the whale&rsquo\;s mouth where he is pulled into the first of its four stomachs. He quickly realizes he has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out&mdash\;one hour to defeat his demons and escape the belly of a whale.
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\nSuspenseful and cinematic\, \;Whalefall \;is an &ldquo\;astoundingly great&rdquo\; (Gillian Flynn\, \;New York Times \;bestselling author) thriller about a young man who has given up on life&hellip\;only to find a reason to live in the most dangerous and unlikely of places.

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Daniel Kraus is the \;New York Times \;bestselling author of more than a dozen novels and graphic novels. He coauthored \;The Living Dead \;with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero. With Guillermo del Toro\, he coauthored \;The Shape of Water\, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro\, Kraus coauthored \;Trollhunters\, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. He has won two Odyssey Awards (for \;Rotters \;and \;Scowler)\, and \;The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch \;was named one of \;Entertainment Weekly&rsquo\;s Top 10 Books of the Year. His books have been Library Guild selections\, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults picks\, Bram Stoker finalists\, and more. His work has been translated into over twenty languages. Daniel lives with his wife in Chicago. \;

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